Episode 368 - Crimewave

In 1985, Sam Raimi and the Coen Brothers were hot off their breakout indie debuts (Evil Dead and Blood Simple, respectively) and got their first shot at a studio film with a budget. What we got was one of the craziest, trainwreckiest movies of all time - Crimewave! How this one didn’t tank their careers into oblivion remains a great mystery, but suffice that if Raimin didn’t have such an awful experience with extreme studio meddling on this one, we would have likely never gotten Evil Dead II and everything after. Crimewave exists as an oddity for us film buffs, to be sure - a terrible movie with lightning flashes of the genius to come later. But should you watch it? We are still undecided on that point, tbh. 0:00 - Intros 4:55 - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Dramas 13:55 - Classic Doctor Who (Britbox, etc) 29:30 - Crime Wave